What is your success rate? Do you offer a guarantee?

Our success rate exceeds 95% at the comprehensive engagement level. We do not guarantee admissions outcomes, and we would respectfully question the judgment of any firm that does.

A guarantee typically requires one of several accommodations. The firm may constrain school lists to include programs well below a candidate’s competitive range, ensuring at least one admission that can be counted as a win. It may inflate package minimums to subsidize those safety applications. Or it may quietly narrow its client base to candidates who were already strong admits, declining applicants whose outcomes are less predictable. Each of these approaches improves the statistic without reflecting the quality — or difficulty — of the work.

We take a different view. We control the rigor of the strategy, the caliber of the consulting team, and the quality of the application presented to the committee. We do not control institutional priorities, class composition targets, or admissions decisions that shift from one cycle to the next. Clients who work with us understand that distinction. What we commit to is a process refined over nearly thirty years to produce the strongest possible candidacy, supported by direct, substantive feedback throughout. Outcomes follow from the work. We are not in the business of guaranteeing decisions made by others.